Cluster during and after milking

1
Cluster during and after milking

• Clean cluster.
• Drop down hoses.
• Good quality liners and tubing.
• Seals and shut off buttons.
• Air bleeds Clear.
• Visibly clean.

2
Main Milking machine faults

• Incorrect milk line fall

3
Milking Machine faults

• Milk Entries

4
Milking Machine faults

• Restrictions of long milk tube.

5
Milking Machine faults

• Length of Long milk tubes

6
Milking Machine Faults

• Faulty pulsation
• Vacuum (Farm vacuum gauges incorrect)
• Inadequate vacuum reserve
• Blocked Claw piece air bleeds
• Worn or twisted liners
• Inability of milk pump to clear jars
• Wrong fall in milk line
• Milk enteries not in top third.

7
Milking Practice Issues

• Minimise teat end damage.
• Taking clusters off under vacuum. 1 in 3 herds it
  is a problem.(blocked air bleeds, faulty buttons,
  hard water areas).
• Over milking.
• Excessive air loss at cluster change
• Parlour not set up for milking through recorder
  jars.

8
Infection Control

• Fore milking with no gloves.
• Spread of infection from cow to cow
• Poor hygiene. ( cubicles and parlour)
• No proper teat dipping.
• Poor quality Teat condition.
• No records cannot ID problem cows

9
Preventing Mastitis

• Clean and dry cubicles and calving boxes
• Fully serviced milking parlour. ( Teat Sprayer)
• All milkers wear gloves. Pre spray and dry wipe
  dirty cows.
• All fresh calvers fore milked for first 10 days.
• Avoid over milking and cross infection.
• Post spray all cows after milking i.e 750mls/50
  cows/milking.

10
Mastitis/SCC outbreak 09 (gt250,000 or 2 to 3
cases /week)

• Wear Gloves
• Pre spray and dry wipe with paper towel.
• Cluster dip after problem cows.
• Post spray all cows. 15 mls/cow/milking
• Milk Record.
• Cull chronic cows with 3 tests over 1 million or
  Dry problem quarter.
• The damage these cows do to a herd cannot be
  overestimated.